29th July 2010
Pick the Tick
Skillset's "Pick the Tick"communications campaign highlights their work in promoting best practice higher and further education across the UK.
The campaign includes raising industry awareness of the innovative approaches undertaken by institutions and individual courses within the Skillset 'Tick' network, as well as ensuring that individuals looking for a career in the media search for the 'Tick' as a mark of quality and industry endorsement.
With industry and education working together through the 'Tick' network of Film and Media Acadamies, as well as Accredited courses in animation, computer games and screenwriting, Skillset are looking to produce the talented innovators and leaders of...
Skillset's "Pick the Tick"communications campaign highlights their work in promoting best practice higher and further education across the UK.
The campaign includes raising industry awareness of the innovative approaches undertaken by institutions and individual courses within the Skillset 'Tick' network, as well as ensuring that individuals looking for a career in the media search for the 'Tick' as a mark of quality and industry endorsement.
With industry and education working together through the 'Tick' network of Film and Media Acadamies, as well as Accredited courses in animation, computer games and screenwriting, Skillset are looking to produce the talented innovators and leaders of the future - those who will ensure the UK's creative industries remain globally competitive and at the forefront of productivity and business innovation.
A promotional DVD featuring BAFTA award winner Noel Clarke is available, along with marketing related materials, by e-mailing Jane Maguire
janem@skillset.org or by calling 020 7713 9800.
In addition to the DVD, this film, along with the one minute version and the "Making of" film is also available online via SkillsetTV on YouTube at
www.youtube.com/skillsettv.
27th July 2010
DCMS acknowledges value of Screen Agencies
Following the announcement on 26 July 2010, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport acknowledged the value of the screen agencies by issuing an endorsement: “The screen agencies do an excellent job promoting film production, video games development, skills and more. For a relatively small investment, they have encouraged investment of over £50m in the audio-visual creative industries across all regions. Retaining this level of support is important and we are considering how the important function they perform fits in with the planned Local Enterprise Partnerships”.
Following the announcement on 26 July 2010, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport acknowledged the value of the screen agencies by issuing an endorsement: “The screen agencies do an excellent job promoting film production, video games development, skills and more. For a relatively small investment, they have encouraged investment of over £50m in the audio-visual creative industries across all regions. Retaining this level of support is important and we are considering how the important function they perform fits in with the planned Local Enterprise Partnerships”.
26th July 2010
UK Film Council to be abolished
In an announcement on 26 July 2010, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, outlined plans to abolish the UK Film Council as part of an efficiency review of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) 55 public bodies.
The DCMS said that the main activities carried out by the UK Film Council, which currently has an annual budget of £15m to invest in British film and employs 75 staff, would continue through other organisations. Mr Hunt said he wanted to establish "a direct and less bureaucratic relationship with the British Film Institute" and that Government and Lottery support for film would...
In an announcement on 26 July 2010, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, outlined plans to abolish the UK Film Council as part of an efficiency review of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) 55 public bodies.
The DCMS said that the main activities carried out by the UK Film Council, which currently has an annual budget of £15m to invest in British film and employs 75 staff, would continue through other organisations. Mr Hunt said he wanted to establish "a direct and less bureaucratic relationship with the British Film Institute" and that Government and Lottery support for film would continue.
In a statement John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council, called the proposal "short-sighted and potentially very damaging, especially as there is at present no roadmap setting out where the UK Film Council's responsibilities and funding will be placed in the future".
Film producer Tim Bevan, who chairs the council, said: "Abolishing the most successful film support organisation the UK has ever had is a bad decision, imposed without any consultation or evaluation. People will rightly look back on today's announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency. British film, which is one of the UK's more successful growth industries, deserves better."
19th July 2010
Oscars Foriegn Language Film Award
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is the organisation appointed by the
American Academy to select the UK’s submission for consideration for the Foreign
Language Film Award at the 83rd American Academy Awards in 2011.
Eligible films must have been released in the UK for at least seven consecutive days to a
public paying audience beginning no earlier than 1 October 2009 and no later than 30
September 2010. No television or online transmission may have occurred before the film’s
theatrical release.
There is no requirement for entries to be in a language indigenous to the UK or to be set in
the UK. The dialogue...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is the organisation appointed by the
American Academy to select the UK’s submission for consideration for the Foreign
Language Film Award at the 83rd American Academy Awards in 2011.
Eligible films must have been released in the UK for at least seven consecutive days to a
public paying audience beginning no earlier than 1 October 2009 and no later than 30
September 2010. No television or online transmission may have occurred before the film’s
theatrical release.
There is no requirement for entries to be in a language indigenous to the UK or to be set in
the UK. The dialogue must be predominantly in a language or languages other than
English and accurate English subtitles are required. Creative control of the motion picture
must have been largely in the hands of citizens of the UK. For full rules go to
www.oscars.org/rulesProducers and distributors should notify BAFTA by email to
nickw@bafta.org of their
intention to submit a film by Monday 16 August.
07th July 2010
Success for film shot in Vauxhall Street, Norwich
While it's often Norwich's cobbled streets and historic quarter which often attract the attention of film crews, a fledgling director has been inspired by an urban area on the edge of the city centre.
Chris Dundon's film Bro will be one of 170 short films shown at Rushes Soho Shorts in London later this month.
Set around the Vauxhall Street area of Norwich, the 18-minute film tells the story of Simon whose brother has a form of autism and how he copes with his sibling's condition.
The film has gained global recognition and has already been screened in Beverly Hills and won a...
While it's often Norwich's cobbled streets and historic quarter which often attract the attention of film crews, a fledgling director has been inspired by an urban area on the edge of the city centre.
Chris Dundon's film Bro will be one of 170 short films shown at Rushes Soho Shorts in London later this month.
Set around the Vauxhall Street area of Norwich, the 18-minute film tells the story of Simon whose brother has a form of autism and how he copes with his sibling's condition.
The film has gained global recognition and has already been screened in Beverly Hills and won a 'special mention' from the jury at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - one of the oldest and most renowned film festivals in the world.
Mr Dundon, 27, from Hertfordshire, who has worked with a number of filmmakers from Norwich on the film, said: “I fell in love with Vauxhall Street and the surrounding area.
“When people think of Norwich, they don't think of the urban side of it and I thought it was the perfect location for the story so we went ahead and filmed there.
“We filmed around the Vauxhall Street area, at the basketball courts and along the A11.”
Mr Dundon teamed up with Norwich-based producer Jonathan Blagrove, who lives in Swansea Road, to create the film, which was commissioned by Screen East.
Ahead of the Rushes Soho Shorts screening on July 24, for which Bro has been shortlisted for the long form award, the film was premiered at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in April and was screened at the 36th Seattle International Film Festival and the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival.
The cast includes Ellie Paskell, who played Maxine in BBC series Waterloo Road.
Mr Dundon, who took inspiration from a school friend's own experience with an autistic sibling, added: “It's been my first commissioned short and it's incredible how well it's done. I didn't expect it to get into Beverly Hills at all and the Seattle festival is huge in the States.”
A film co-directed by Norwich graduate Jon Dunleavy, who studied at what was then called the Norwich School of Art and Design, has also been shortlisted for Rushes Soho Shorts.
Crash Bang Wallow is a bittersweet comic tale of an ex-stuntman Larry LeTan and his rise and fall from Hollywood infamy.
The festival will be held from July 21 to 30.
For more information about the festival, go to
www.sohoshorts.com
07th July 2010
Call for Applications – Docs 360
Want to win £5,000 cash and £20,000 worth of digital marketing support for your feature documentary project?
Applications are now open for Docs 360, a 9-month development programme and competition for documentary filmmakers who want to use cross-platform strategies to develop, finance, market and distribute their film. The programme is backed by Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, digital marketing agency Channel D and leading UK distributor Dogwoof and run by Initialize Films and the Digital Filmmakers’ Network.
To apply and for more information please go to
www.docs360.co.uk
Want to win £5,000 cash and £20,000 worth of digital marketing support for your feature documentary project?
Applications are now open for Docs 360, a 9-month development programme and competition for documentary filmmakers who want to use cross-platform strategies to develop, finance, market and distribute their film. The programme is backed by Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, digital marketing agency Channel D and leading UK distributor Dogwoof and run by Initialize Films and the Digital Filmmakers’ Network.
To apply and for more information please go to
www.docs360.co.uk
05th July 2010
Low Carbon and the Investment Readiness Workshop
The workshop being held on Wednesday 14th July 2010 is now full. The next available workshop will be held in Norwich during the first week in September - exact date and venue to be announced next week.
The workshop being held on Wednesday 14th July 2010 is now full. The next available workshop will be held in Norwich during the first week in September - exact date and venue to be announced next week.